Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham 54 years later in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke, a year before his death, established the Duke Endowment an…
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham 54 years later in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke, a year before his death, established the Duke Endowment and the collegiate institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke, the principal founder of a tobacco manufacturer in 1865, that later became merged into the conglomerate American Tobacco Company in 1890.
Former names: Brown School (1838–1841) · Union Institute (1841–1851) · Normal College (1851–1859) · Trinity College (1859–1924)
Motto: Eruditio et Religio (Latin)
Motto in English: "Knowledge and Religion"
Type: Private research university
Established: 1838
Accreditation: SACS
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian; historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church
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